Microsoft Certification Contract Job Trends in Central London

Microsoft Certification
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for Microsoft Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 10 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 111 113
Rank change year-on-year -20 +2 +35
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 19 21 18
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.76% 1.06% 0.79%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.90% 4.21% 3.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 10 8
10th Percentile £331 £221 £511
25th Percentile £409 £358 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £510 £588
Median % change year-on-year -5.44% -13.15% +6.82%
75th Percentile £625 £622 £674
90th Percentile £725 £678 £706
London median daily rate £509 £500 £495
% change year-on-year +1.70% +1.01% -10.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Central London

Microsoft Certification falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Central London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 656 499 537
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 26.29% 25.14% 23.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 470 330 336
10th Percentile £405 £314 £363
25th Percentile £463 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.45% - -
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £734 £739 £750
London median daily rate £550 £533 £538
% change year-on-year +3.29% -0.93% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 11 4
10th Percentile £19.44 £25.04 £20.31
25th Percentile £24.25 £26.00 £20.43
Median hourly rate £32.07 £34.48 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% +43.67% +33.33%
75th Percentile £56.63 £57.96 £27.00
90th Percentile £61.25 £65.57 -
London median hourly rate £53.00 £25.15 £30.81
% change year-on-year +110.74% -18.37% -43.98%

Microsoft Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Microsoft Certification relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Microsoft Certification job vacancy trend in Central London

Microsoft Certification
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Microsoft Certification.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Microsoft Certification

Microsoft Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Certification in Central London over the 6 months to 10 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Certification in Central London

Microsoft Certification
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Microsoft Certification.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Microsoft Certification

Microsoft Certification
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Certification within the Central London region over the 6 months to 10 September 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London -21 16 £444 -13.03% 15
Southwark - 2 £650 - 4
Microsoft Certification
London

Microsoft Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (10.53%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Chatbot
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (21.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (5.26%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 14 (73.68%) Azure
2 7 (36.84%) Power Platform
3 6 (31.58%) Dynamics 365
3 6 (31.58%) Power Automate
4 4 (21.05%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (21.05%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (21.05%) Azure Service Bus
4 4 (21.05%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (15.79%) Azure Functions
5 3 (15.79%) Entra ID
5 3 (15.79%) PowerApps
5 3 (15.79%) Serverless
6 2 (10.53%) Azure API Management
6 2 (10.53%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (10.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (10.53%) GitHub
6 2 (10.53%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (5.26%) Cloudflare
7 1 (5.26%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.79%) Firewall
2 2 (10.53%) DNS
2 2 (10.53%) TCP/IP
3 1 (5.26%) DHCP
3 1 (5.26%) DKIM
3 1 (5.26%) DMARC
3 1 (5.26%) LAN
3 1 (5.26%) SAN
3 1 (5.26%) Structured Cabling
3 1 (5.26%) VPN
3 1 (5.26%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.79%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (15.79%) Power BI
2 2 (10.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (5.26%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (5.26%) Data Lake
3 1 (5.26%) Delta Lake
3 1 (5.26%) Metadata
3 1 (5.26%) Power Query
3 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Git
1 2 (10.53%) Visual Studio
1 2 (10.53%) Visual Studio Code
2 1 (5.26%) JIRA
General
1 6 (31.58%) Social Skills
2 4 (21.05%) Finance
2 4 (21.05%) Public Sector
3 3 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (15.79%) Marketing
4 1 (5.26%) Banking
4 1 (5.26%) Financial Institution
4 1 (5.26%) Legal
4 1 (5.26%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 5 (26.32%) Developer
2 4 (21.05%) Dynamics 365 Developer
3 2 (10.53%) Architect
3 2 (10.53%) Data Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) IT Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Lead
3 2 (10.53%) Senior
4 1 (5.26%) Consultant
4 1 (5.26%) Field Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Field Service Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Functional Consultant
4 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Junior
4 1 (5.26%) Lead Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Network Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Senior Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Support Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (21.05%) .NET
1 4 (21.05%) Terraform
2 2 (10.53%) .NET Framework
2 2 (10.53%) ASP.NET Web API
2 2 (10.53%) HTML5 Canvas
2 2 (10.53%) Middleware
2 2 (10.53%) REST
3 1 (5.26%) ARM Templates
3 1 (5.26%) Kafka
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (5.26%) Node.js
3 1 (5.26%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Cloud Native
2 2 (10.53%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (10.53%) Onboarding
2 2 (10.53%) Security Posture
2 2 (10.53%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (5.26%) AI Agents
3 1 (5.26%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (5.26%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.26%) Driving Licence
3 1 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (5.26%) iPad
3 1 (5.26%) iPhone
3 1 (5.26%) PKI
3 1 (5.26%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.79%) Windows
2 2 (10.53%) Windows Server
3 1 (5.26%) Android
3 1 (5.26%) VMS
3 1 (5.26%) Windows 10
3 1 (5.26%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (42.11%) DevOps
2 6 (31.58%) Agile
3 5 (26.32%) CI/CD
3 5 (26.32%) Customer Service
3 5 (26.32%) Scrum
4 4 (21.05%) CRM
4 4 (21.05%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (21.05%) Migration
4 4 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (21.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (15.79%) Analytics
5 3 (15.79%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (15.79%) Case Management
5 3 (15.79%) Coaching
5 3 (15.79%) Decision-Making
5 3 (15.79%) Deployment Automation
5 3 (15.79%) Mentoring
5 3 (15.79%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (15.79%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (15.79%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (21.05%) C#
1 4 (21.05%) Python
1 4 (21.05%) SQL
2 3 (15.79%) PowerShell
3 2 (10.53%) Bicep
3 2 (10.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 2 (10.53%) JavaScript
3 2 (10.53%) TypeScript
4 1 (5.26%) Java
4 1 (5.26%) T-SQL
4 1 (5.26%) VB
Qualifications
1 6 (31.58%) Security Cleared
2 3 (15.79%) Azure Certification
2 3 (15.79%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (15.79%) SC Cleared
3 2 (10.53%) A+ Certification
3 2 (10.53%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (10.53%) CCNA
3 2 (10.53%) Degree
3 2 (10.53%) DV Cleared
3 2 (10.53%) MCSE
3 2 (10.53%) Network+ Certification
4 1 (5.26%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) QA
2 1 (5.26%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.26%) NIST
2 1 (5.26%) SLA
2 1 (5.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (15.79%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.26%) Firmware
2 1 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (5.26%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (5.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (15.79%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (5.26%) Ansible
2 1 (5.26%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 17 (89.47%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.26%) Cisco
2 1 (5.26%) Databricks
2 1 (5.26%) Dell
2 1 (5.26%) EMC
2 1 (5.26%) Okta
2 1 (5.26%) OpenAI
2 1 (5.26%) Remedy
2 1 (5.26%) ServiceNow
2 1 (5.26%) VMware